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Firewall
Cloud-delivered, on-prem and hybrid firewalls, and why cloud-only does not fit every use case.
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FWaaS (cloud-delivered)
Firewall as a service: the promise and the practical limits.
- 02
On-prem / CPE-based NGFW
Next-generation firewalls at the site, and why they are coming back.
- 03
Hybrid deployment models
Mixing cloud-delivered and on-prem enforcement.
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Policy & rule management
Keeping rule sets understandable, auditable and small.
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Network segmentation
Zones, micro-segmentation and enforcing them with firewalls.
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IoT / OT security & segmentation
Protecting industrial and connected devices that cannot protect themselves.
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Where cloud-delivered falls short
Latency-sensitive apps, high-bandwidth sites, OT and data sovereignty.
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Vendor landscape & evolution
How the market moved from appliances to cloud and partly back.